Tyrant's Lash seems to be a very ideal test for Vulkan as it seems to be completely CPU bound. I was comparing with another person (I believe on the other Mad Max article) who had the same GPU (GTX 960), but I have an i7-6700K CPU and he had an old AMD FX chip. He was getting something very low, like 30 FPS or something like that, and I was getting somewhere around 80 FPS. Again, exact same GPU. Even my laptop with a GTX 860M was beating his framerate due to it having a better CPU even though the GTX 960 is about 3x better than an 860M.

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Quoting: kf

Quoting: cprnI want majority of AAA companies to go bankrupt because of those frauds.

Too bad it hurts the small guys the most.

Agreed, these guys succeeding makes little studios go away, not the big AAA ones :(

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Good! So happy to see that Gearbox is taking a stand. :)

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Quoting: km3kFYI, The Serious Sam Complete Pack on Steam [External Link] doesn't force you to rebuy games you already own. Since I already owned everything but SS HD: TFE and SS HD: TSE + DLC, I got these remaining games for only $4.36. :D

Thanks for bringing that up... $4.74 for me :)

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Yes, thanks Croteam, I'm really excited about you guys helping to pave the way for Vulkan. :)

Another note for purchasing, in this case, would be that it's okay to buy the "Windows" version since the money goes to Croteam regardless of which icon is on the purchase :)

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Nice, thanks Feral! I'm glad this got caught and fixed before the official Vulkan release of the game so that we can have benchmarks that are more correct. That's what betas are for, right? :)

It's also very nice to see Vulkan performing better than OpenGL since usually the first implementations of an API are slower than what they are meant to replace. Meaning, it should only go up from here :)

My 3 year old Bonobo Extreme (GTX 860M) isn't my main gaming rig anymore, but it makes the game actually playable at full 1080p on it... which, looking to the future, is very exciting!

Thanks again :)

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Quoting: KuJoFor me, the Vulkan-support is a blessing. MM was previously unplayable for me (AMD FX-6100, AMD R9 280, 8GB RAM). I had part only 12 FPS. That's why I had already deleted MM from the hard drive.

But now with Vulkan I never got under 45 FPS. And in scenes where little on the screen happens I even got over 80 FPS. With Vulkan MM has been playable by me for the first time.

That's awesome to hear. It seems Vulkan will make buying an AMD GPU make a lot more financial sense under Linux :)

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Looks really nice, can't wait to try it :)

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Quoting: Tak

Quoting: natewardawgVulkan API wouldn't initialize due to a missing unity file

The message about the (optional) data.unity3d file is unrelated.
One likely cause is missing or too-old libvulkan (you'll need 1.0.21 or later).
Did you have any of the 5.6 beta vulkan builds running on your machine?

Hi Levi, silly me... I forgot that "every Vulkan thing I've thrown at it" has used the Steam Runtime. :p I didn't even think to check that. How embarrassing, haha :D It's working just fine now.

So exciting! Thanks for your help!

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Quoting: CreakI like that you guys are more positive and pro-active!

Edit: @natewardawg I also sent a message to the linux devs ;)

Thanks, I posted it in the Linux Editor forums as well, even though that isn't *exactly* where it should go :)

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